Transcribe a 3-hour Zoom recording as one file.
You have a Zoom meeting that ran three hours and you want the whole thing as text. Drop the MP4 or the audio-only M4A Zoom saved into the box below: one file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and a 3-hour meeting is usually done in about six minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and a pack from $6 transcribes the rest from where the preview stopped.
Long Zoom calls
The meeting already happened. The file is all you need.
Take the M4A if Zoom gave you one
Zoom cloud recordings usually come with an audio-only M4A next to the MP4, and for a transcript that small audio file is the better upload: the words are the same and it moves in a fraction of the time. A local recording lands as an MP4 in the Zoom folder on your computer once the meeting ends and Zoom finishes converting it.
Three hours, read in six minutes
Processing runs at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a three-hour board call is ready before you have refilled your coffee. A nine-and-a-half-hour run is on the public proof page with its timing, if you want to see the long end before trusting it with yours.
Bigger than the box takes
The box on this page is sized for the usual meeting file. A long gallery-view MP4 that runs into gigabytes continues on the upload page, which accepts one file up to 5 GB. Before a pack is on the account, uploads go up to 2 GB.
Find the decision in hour two
Each recording comes back with a brief that states the thesis and the takeaways, chapters with timestamps, the names, numbers and dates people said, and a chat you can ask about the meeting. Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
Zoom's own transcript
Why people bring a long Zoom file somewhere else.
✗ Working from the raw recording
A three-hour Zoom file is easy to save and hard to use. Scrubbing a video player for one sentence is how an afternoon disappears.
- Scrubbing a three-hour timeline for one remark
- Notes taken by whoever was least busy
- A cloud transcript tied to a paid Zoom plan
- Audio transcripts that only some account types get
- No chapters, no brief, nothing to forward
- Searching the video by memory
✓ Working from the transcript
The same file, uploaded once, becomes a document you can search, quote and send.
- The MP4 or M4A uploaded as Zoom saved it
- Chapters you can jump to by timestamp
- Numbers and dates said in the meeting, listed
- A brief to paste into the follow-up email
- Works on local and cloud recordings alike
- Exports in five formats from one run
Sample output
Three hours in, still one clock.
Illustrative output written for this page, not a real meeting. A long Zoom file comes back as one transcript with timestamps counted from the start of the recording.
Export
One transcript. Five clean formats.
Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.
Plain text
De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.
SRT captions
Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Timestamped text for your own tools.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
A pack from $6 (500 minutes) opens the full transcript. After that, no subscription and no auto-renew — every tier is a one-time minute pack, and credits never expire. Buy once, use the minutes whenever you need them.
Casual pack
$6/500 min
8 hours of audio — $0.72 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 500 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$12/2,000 min
33 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 2,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Long Zoom recordings, answered.
How long does a 3-hour Zoom recording take to transcribe?
About six minutes. Processing averages around 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a two-hour call is roughly four minutes and a five-hour workshop roughly ten. You can close the tab and come back to it.
What does a 3-hour Zoom meeting cost?
Three hours is 180 minutes, which sits inside the $6 pack (500 minutes) with room for two more meetings of that length. The first 20 minutes are free for a first-time visitor. Packs are one-time purchases, credits never expire, and no subscription is required.
Should I upload the MP4 or the M4A?
Either works. The M4A is audio only, so it is much smaller and uploads faster, and the transcript is the same. If you recorded locally and only have the MP4, upload that.
My Zoom file is over 5 GB. What now?
The limit is one file up to 10 hours or 5 GB. A file that large is mostly picture, so upload the M4A instead or save the audio track as MP3. A meeting longer than 10 hours goes in as two files.
Does it work for Zoom meetings that were not in English?
Yes. 99 languages are detected automatically, so a meeting held in Spanish, Hindi or German needs no setting changed before upload.
Which formats can I export, and where does the recording go?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and no bot ever joins your Zoom call.
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